The Other Side of Middletown

Exploring Muncie's African American Community and Middletown Redux

Luke Eric Lassiter, Hurley Goodall, Elizabeth Campbell, Michelle Natasya Johnson (Autoren)

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288 Seiten

2004
Altamira Press
978-0-7591-0668-0 (ISBN)

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Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the famous community study by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, the authors initiated this project to reveal the unrecorded historical and contemporary life of Middletown, a well-known pseudonym for the Midwestern city of Muncie, Indiana. As a collaboration of community and campus, this book recounts the early efforts of Hurley Goodall to develop a community history and archive that told the story of the African American community, and rectify the representation of small town America as exclusively white. The authors designed and implemented a collaborative ethnographic field project that involved intensive interviews, research, and writing between community organizations, local experts, ethnographers, and teams of college students. This book is a unique model for collaborative research, easily accessible to students. It will be a valuable resource for instructors in anthropology, creative writing, sociology, community research, and African American studies. It may be purchased with a companion DVD, Middletown Redux, which recounts the making of the Other Side of Middletown, illuminating the development of this rewarding ethnography out of joint fieldwork, and the strong ties formed as a result between the local communities.The Other Side of Middletown project is sponsored by the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry in Muncie, Indiana. Middletown Redux is a twenty-six-minute documentary that recounts the development and writing of The Other Side of Middletown, written in response to the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the famous study by Robert S. and Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture. In their own words, faculty, students, and community members comment on the project's evolution and the relationships formed between the campus and community. This informative and compelling film illustrates the process of creating a rich ethnography out of fieldwork and the rewards of collaborating with local communities. Middletown Redux is directed by James Miles and produced by the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, Ball State University.

Luke Eric Lassiter is Professor of Humanities and Anthropology and director of the graduate humanities program at Marshall University Graduate College in South Charleston, WV. Hurley Goodall is a former Indiana state legislator and recipient of the Distinguished Hoosier Award from Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon. Elizabeth Campbell is an independent folklorist who specializes in community-based arts and history. Michelle Natasya Johnson is in the anthropology department at Ball State University.

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: The Story of a Collaborative Project Part 3 PART I. Middletown and Muncie's African American Community Chapter 4 1. The Enduring Legacy of Muncie as Middletown Chapter 5 2. A City Apart Part 6 PART II. Collaborative Understandings Chapter 7 3. Getting a Living Chapter 8 4. Making a Home Chapter 9 5. Training the Young Chapter 10 6. Using Leisure Chapter 11 7. Engaging in Religious Practices Chapter 12 8. Engaging in Community Activities Chapter 13 Conclusion: Lessons Learned about Muncie, Race, and Ethnography Chapter 14 Epilogue Chapter 15 Afterword Chapter 16 Appendix A. Notes on the Collaborative Process Chapter 17 Appendix B. House Concurrent Resolution 33 Chapter 18 About the Authors and Community Advisors

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.2.2004
Co-Autor	Yolanda T. Moses
Verlagsort	California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 227 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7591-0668-1 / 0759106681
ISBN-13	978-0-7591-0668-0 / 9780759106680
Zustand	Neuware